AT the two-day meeting of the fifth ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation, FOCAC, held in Beijing last month, the issue of infrastructure as the key link in enabling functional integration in Africa received attention at the highest echelon of Chinese leadership.

WHEN my friends from the South point accusing fingers at me for being a Northerner and for the way the region has ruled the country and brought it to its present deplorable state, I shake my head in sadness.

DURING the Vietnam War – a cold war era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 to the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 – many Americans appeared thorn between the patriotic impulse of supporting their country’s involvement in the war and the horrors of deaths, mostly of Vietnamese, during the war.

IN the matter of revenue allocation, especially as it relates to the re-institution of “onshore/offshore dichotomy,” it really begs belief that Northern political leaders won’t let sleeping dogs lie. The current attempt to re-visit the issue is ill-advised and insensitive to current national realities.

AS Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja prepares to deliver judgement on the suit filed by Jibrin Isah (Echocho) seeking to validate the January 2011 Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship primary election in Kogi State today, there are anxieties as to whether the judgement will not toe the path of the suit filed by the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timpriye Sylva against the PDP for excluding him from the second primary election of the party.